Summary
Michelle Barker is a Senior Front End Developer with 11 years’ experience crafting accessible, user-centred interfaces and complex data visualisations using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and D3.js. With a background in design and illustration, she combines visual sensibility with engineering rigor to build interactive web tools for data analysis and excellent UX. She founded CSS { In Real Life }, writes extensively on CSS (featured on Smashing Magazine, CSS-Tricks, Codrops, Web.dev and MDN), and is a regular international conference speaker—bringing a communicator’s clarity to technical problems. Based in the Greater Bristol Area, she currently leads front-end development at Ada Mode and is passionate about green tech and digital sustainability, often applying design thinking to reduce digital waste.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Saltash Community School
2:1, Design: Illustration, 2:1, Design: Illustration at University of Plymouth